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Monday, January 25, 2010

News The Morning News: Chemical Ali Goes Down, Bombing in Baghdad, Cane Toads, Stealing Gloria Estefan

Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:51 AM

Chemical Ali Hanged: Spent his adult life blithely killing Kurds and Shia Muslims.

Just Before the Hanging: Three car bombs went off in Baghdad, killing 36. Unclear if there's a connection.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409: Crashed into the sea off Lebanon carrying 90 people.

Text Message from Haiti: If you haven't read the humble and humbling firsthand account of Haiti after the quake by Nathan Hamlin Bean, Icon Grill server, you should.

New Orleans Saints: Going to their first Super Bowl.

For Stealing Tracks by Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Green Day, and Gloria Estefan: Mother of four at first sentenced to pay the RIAA $2 million, now $54,000.

Meanwhile, in Chinese Musical News: Two pop stars are fined for lip-syncing, which became illegal after that whole Olympics lip-syncing scandal.

Woman Falls into a Rare Rose Period Picasso: And puts a six-inch tear in it.

Boeing: Making the profits.

Gary Coleman Back in Jail for No-Show: Not looking good.

Church Usher Testifies: That he saw Scott Roeder kill Dr. George Tiller, in Kansas anti-abortion trial.

Will The Housing Market Come Back in the Spring?: December sales show greatest drop in 40 years.

Hanford to Become National Park?: The Feds are mulling it.

'Avatar' Only Two Million Clams Short: Of 'Titanic' record.

Saturday Was National Pie Day: Sunday was the birthday of canned beer.

Australians Forced to Acknowledge That Clubbing Is Better Than Gassing: The cane toad saga continues.

And from the classic, unintentionally hysterical, not-at-all-mock-umentary from 1988, Cane Toads: An Unnatural History:

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Gary Coleman looks 10 times better than Dennis Rodman does these days. Have you seen Dennis on Celeb. Rehab?!?! My GOD!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on January 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM

Yay! I love the Cane Toads video! As an undergrad it was shown each year in an Enviro-Sci class, and universally looked forward to by all.

Posted by Soylent Green is...cane toads! on January 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM

I LOVE the cane toad video and have been trying to track it down since i saw it in school years ago but i didn't remember the name of it. thanks for posting!!

Posted by mr. herriman on January 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM

Ooh ooh oooooh, can we ban lip syncing too? It's not like they can claim freedom of speech.

Posted by Renton Mike on January 25, 2010 at 9:02 AM

Halliburton profits down 48%, a fact that alone vindicates the results of the 2008 election.

Posted by not as good as waterboarding Cheney, but not bad on January 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM

I love Cane Toads too, but I think it is very much intentionally funny. Mark Lewis also did a movie calls Natural History of the Chicken, which is also very good.

Posted by Greenwood on January 25, 2010 at 9:43 AM

housing in the toilet.
unemployment skyrocketing.
national debt in the stratosphere....
those facts alone vindicates the results of the 2008 election.

Posted by Seattle Hipster on January 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM

Could the housing numbers be due to everything affordable already being snapped up? Last year I was thinking about buying, and it looks like I missed the boat, because there's now pretty much nothing less than $200k on the market.

Posted by keshmeshi on January 25, 2010 at 10:49 AM

@8 might be plenty of bargains in commercial real estate now. I took a drive around the north end of Lake Washington from Ravenna to downtown Kirkland this weekend and was shocked at all the boarded-up storefronts and former businesses for lease or sale (also an entire block of houses around Roosevelt High School)...

Posted by Peter F on January 25, 2010 at 10:53 AM

Hanford as a public park? That worked so well for Gas Works Park (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/331605_ga…

Posted by PaulBarwick on January 25, 2010 at 11:11 AM

There was a point in time that you could get both of Mark Lewis' docs on PBS.org, or at least that's where I got them a few years ago.

Posted by TheFang on January 25, 2010 at 1:21 PM

"The best thing is to get rid of them. Get bitch stick and hit it at them."

Posted by jtwankerschmidt on January 25, 2010 at 2:08 PM

I know it's bordering on pedantic, but copyright infringement isn't, strictly speaking, stealing. It's still wrong, but let's not foster the idea that it's on par with depriving someone of their physical property.

Posted by make dir on January 25, 2010 at 7:26 PM